【要約】60-80 My local newspaper recently ran a feature article headlined, "The Great American Bag Race," which I found both interesting and amusing in ways that neither the author nor the editor probably intended. The subject was the relative merits of paper and plastic grocery bags; the discussion included the reasons why many customers and grocers vehemently prefer one or the other, and the fi...

【要約】60-80 It is significant that the scenery which the amateur painter finds most attractive as a subject for painting is the scenery most often avoided by the serious professional artist. Very few of the great landscape artists of the past or present have ever chosen to paint naturally dramatic or beautiful subjects. A landscape which is naturally beautiful or otherwise attractive to the hum...